The medium-term outlook for global air cargo demand remains strong, but the industry is watching several key variables that could have major implications on air freight trends, including how the escalating tariff battle between the U.S. and China could affect shipping patterns.
Air Lease Corp. (ALC) delivered four newly built aircraft and secured lease agreements for five aircraft from three customers during the first quarter of 2018, the Los Angeles-based lessor said April 5.
The weight range for tariffs Beijing plans to impose on U.S. aircraft appear designed to give protection to Chinese airliner types—even if the real aim is to reply to proposed U.S. import taxes.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released demand growth results for global air freight markets for February 2018 showing a 6.8% increase in demand measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs) compared to the same period last year.
CRJ Series regional jets have transformed the airline industry over the past 25 years, and promise to keep making aviation better and more accessible to more communities around the world over the next 25 years and beyond.
Beyond any near-term impact on Boeing, which at this point looks minimal, the escalating trade tit-for-tat between the world’s top two commercial aviation markets raises a larger question: whether a China-U.S. trade war kick starts a global recession.
The Sri Lankan government appointed a new board for state-run SriLankan Airlines as it seeks to return the perennially loss-making airline to profitability.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is threatening to restrict fleet additions for underperforming airlines under a new policy designed to raise service standards.
Eurocontrol investigated a software misalignment that caused its Enhanced Tactical Flow Management System (ETFMS) to fail for several hours April 3, causing delays to thousands of flights in Europe.
Southwest Airlines will operate 65 international routes from 23 U.S. gateways by July 2018, up from just four U.S. airports from which it operated international flights when it started flying beyond the U.S. in 2014.
Start-up airline Air Belgium hopes to have flights to seven destinations operating by this fall, CEO Niky Terzakis told Aviation Daily, as the carrier readies its first flight from Brussels South Charleroi Airport to Hong Kong at the end of April and looks ahead to longer-term fleet expansion plans.
Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia are breaking off their partnership, which will see them become rivals in the already fiercely contested Australia-New Zealand market.
In a recent report published by FlightStats, a commercial aviation data services, provider, Royal Jordanian ranked third out of 13 major airlines in the Middle East and Africa region and eigth among 41 global airlines in terms of on-time arrival performance for the month of February 2018.
EgyptAir has received its ninth and final Boeing 737-800NG on a lease deal from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE). Alan Peaford talked to airline chairman, Captain Sherif Ezzat Badrous, about the deal and a new approach for the Egyptian carrier.
Uniquely positioned after completing a preliminary design for NASA, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works was the only bidder to build the low-boom flight demonstrator, but NASA praises the quality of its bid.
